In fact, it would be derelict for the generals not to warn the administration of that.

On the other hand, listening to the banter between gaggles of Glaswegians at, say, their Barras market on any morning of the year is like listening to the discordant yakking of jackdaws around derelict tenement chimneys in the nesting season.

Seemingly terrorized by her hooting-mad, derelict father (Robert Duvall, in a hilarious cameo), Doss doffs her duds at the first opportunity and promptly has the hapless attorney on a very tight retainer.

And if I think that the ending is a major dud and DON'T say so in print, then as a critic I've been derelict in my duties--especially if said (undescribed) ending left an otherwise friendly audience pissed off.